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S2E23 She’s Beautiful. This Is Expensive.✨ (How to Describe People and Things in Mandarin) —Essential Mandarin Lesson 23 (opens the original)
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🎓 Learn Mandarin with Me — 1-on-1 on Preply! 💸 Get 30% OFF your first class 🔗 https://preply.com/en/?pref=NjkzNjk1Mw==&id=1753189602.091521&ep= 📋 Check out my full profile: 🔗 https://preply.com/en/tutor/2970664 In Lesson 23, we’re learning how to describe people, places, and things in Mandarin. You’ll learn one of the most common Mandarin patterns: subject + 很 + adjective We’ll use it to describe real things around you: a beautiful café, good coffee, delicious cake, expensive clothes, a bus
S2E22 Sorry, I’m Busy Tonight🙏 (How to Politely Decline in Mandarin) —Essential Mandarin Lesson 22 (opens the original)
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🎓 Learn Mandarin with Me — 1-on-1 on Preply! 💸 Get 30% OFF your first class 🔗 https://preply.com/en/?pref=NjkzNjk1Mw==&id=1753189602.091521&ep= 📋 Check out my full profile: 🔗 https://preply.com/en/tutor/2970664 In Lesson 22, we’re learning how to politely decline an invitation in Mandarin. Sometimes people invite you to dinner, coffee, a movie, or something on the weekend — and you want to say no without sounding too direct. In this episode, you’ll learn useful phrases like: 不好意思，我今天有点儿忙。 S
S2E21 Can You Speak Chinese? 会 vs 能🗣️ (Ability and Possibility in Mandarin) —Essential Mandarin Lesson 21 (opens the original)
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🎓 Learn Mandarin with Me — 1-on-1 on Preply! 💸 Get 30% OFF your first class 🔗 https://preply.com/en/?pref=NjkzNjk1Mw==&id=1753189602.091521&ep= 📋 Check out my full profile: 🔗 https://preply.com/en/tutor/2970664 In Lesson 21, we’re learning two very useful ways to say “can” in Mandarin: 会 and 能 They can both be translated as “can,” but they are not the same. 会 is usually about a learned skill — something you know how to do, like 我会说中文 , 我会开车 , or 我会做饭 . 能 is more about possibility, permissio
S2E20 Challenge: Describe Your Day in Chinese🗓️ (Stage 2 Recap) —Essential Mandarin Lesson 20 (opens the original)
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🎓 Learn Mandarin with Me — 1-on-1 on Preply! 💸 Get 30% OFF your first class 🔗 https://preply.com/en/?pref=NjkzNjk1Mw==&id=1753189602.091521&ep= 📋 Check out my full profile: 🔗 https://preply.com/en/tutor/2970664 Lesson 20 is the final recap of Stage 2. In this challenge episode, we’ll put together everything we learned in the last few lessons: time, daily actions, drinks, sentence order, small connecting words, and 不 / 没 . The goal is simple: describe a normal day in Mandarin. You’ll practis
S2E19 Two Ways to Say No🙅🏻♀️ (不 vs 没 in Mandarin) —Essential Mandarin Lesson 19 (opens the original)
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🎓 Learn Mandarin with Me — 1-on-1 on Preply! 💸 Get 30% OFF your first class 🔗 https://preply.com/en/?pref=NjkzNjk1Mw==&id=1753189602.091521&ep= 📋 Check out my full profile: 🔗 https://preply.com/en/tutor/2970664 In Lesson 19, we’re learning two important ways to say “no” in Mandarin: 不 and 没 They can both make a sentence negative, but they are not used in the same way. In this episode, we’ll review patterns you’ve already seen, like 是 / 不是 and 有 / 没有 , then look at the difference between sen
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